DOS ain't dead

Euphoria/DOS dead (but 0.01% chance of revival) (Developers)

posted by Arjay, 03.01.2011, 01:19
(edited by Arjay on 03.01.2011, 01:51)

> FYI in case anybody else wants to (also) try.

Thanks. I also had a look into the Euphoria programming language DOS issue. These are the 2 main OpenEuphoria forum discussions which will bring anyone unfamiliar with the issue up to speed:

Version 4.1.4b No Longer Supports Dos
Open Call for DOS Developers

Euphoria's Wikipedia entry has been updated to say "Version 3.1.1 remains an important milestone release being the last version of Euphoria which supports the Microsoft MS-DOS platform." with a external reference link to "Platform Specific Issues" which basically says that DOS support has now been dropped.

Marco Achury who was quoted by Rugxulo above maintains a page called:
Euphoria Programming Language for DOS Users which has distributions and installation instructions.

> instructions in docs). configure.bat won't run in DOS (uses CMD.EXE
> features),
Reviewing configure.bat in eu40-2434.zip I can see a rewrite of that batch file for DOS would be fairly easy.

> and --without-euphoria apparently doesn't work anyways.
Euphoria scripts appear to be used for various things like formatting docs, again not apparent major issue in doing a build with a compiler.

However what I do wonder: is there sufficient Euphoria demand for someone to spend the time maintaining a DOS port anyway? Why do I wonder this? Well because I noticed a serious lack of any significant historical Euphoria related traffic on Newgroups (Google groups), RapidEuphoria's own archives from 1996 (well posts from Dec 1997...) and this post by Marco Achury in 2008 on freedos-devel. All of which added together make me wonder if a dedicated DOS port is worth saving? Perhaps it is. So Marco, if you are reading perhaps the best solution for you to work forward would be to work a DOS build with the Euphoria developers using Japheth's HX DOS Extender instead.


Note: There is a apparently a Win32 based work allowing the last DOS version and Win32 version to be run side by side which someone has already come up with: How to run both Euphoria version 3.1.1 and version 4.0 beta 4 on same computer.

Complete thread:

• Euphoria - Laaca, 02.01.2011, 10:07 (Developers)
  • Euphoria/DOS dead (but 0.01% chance of revival) - Rugxulo, 02.01.2011, 14:00
    • Euphoria/DOS dead (but 0.01% chance of revival) - Arjay, 03.01.2011, 01:19